A federal jury has awarded two couples nearly $4.25 million after finding one of the largest natural gas drillers in PA polluted their wells

Associated Press         March 10, 2016
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Two couples were awarded nearly $4.25 million on Thursday after a federal jury found one of the largest natural gas producers in Pennsylvania was responsible for the contamination of their well water, capping a six-year odyssey that turned their sleepy village into a battleground over the nation’s shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing boom.
The verdict in Scranton came at the end of a bitter lawsuit pitting homeowners in ...